Word: auteuring
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...year-old director's last effort, the mordantly witty 2005 horror pic The Devil's Rejects, revealed the metal singer/director's knack for coaxing a certain grisly charm out of his homicidal antiheroes and evoking an unexpected creepiness out of the sun-bleached California desert. Now the horror auteur is taking a stab at Michael Myers, the masked psychopath from John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween, which Zombie is retooling for an August release...
...inspired premise: to commemorate, update and parody the infra-dig, ultraviolent '70s genre movies that used to fill three hours at scuzzy urban theaters. And just the right auteur-perps showed up for the job: Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) and Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill), plus a few other cult directors to provide zesty trailers of fake horror films. Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a zombie thriller with some bloody fabulous effects; it's fast, icky and smart. You can skip the second feature: Tarantino's Death Proof, above center, offers an hour of gaseous girl talk and an inane...
...CREATOR: A Democratic operative with ties to Barack Obama was outed as the auteur. Obama denies any role, but tongues are wagging...
...bawdy 1990 coming-of-age romantic comedy. "I'm still proud of it, even though it was more a succes d'estime I'm afraid," he says. Shaye tells Time's Sonja Steptoe why he decided to relinquish his role as mogul temporarily for a second turn as auteur...
...great fun. It's really your movie [in a way that it isn't] when you're a producer or an actor. You are really the driver of the car. Of course there are mechanics and collaboration that go into the process; I don't believe in the auteur theory. It's the same reason I like to cook. You have all this stuff around you and you have to make something that you think will be tasty...